Mermaid Maritime’s Western Hemisphere business unit (MSSW) has been awarded seven different subsea projects in the Middle East with an estimated value of US$11 million. In addition, Mermaid has also secured extensions for three newbuild deliveries…
Vallourec subsidiary that specializes in the production and repair of accessories for oil and gas wells, Vallourec Tube-Alloy, opened a new plant in Singapore, to be known as Vallourec Tube-Alloy Asia-Pacific. This new site will support…
Philip Hemmens has been appointed the new managing director at Eni Norge. Hemmens is a British citizen and has for the past five years been Managing Director of Eni UK. Hemmens replaces Ruggero Gheller, who was appointed in 2014…
Maersk Drilling has agreed to acquire the newbuild harsh environment jackup rig Hercules Highlander from struggling US drilling contractor Hercules Offshore. Hercules was awarded a five-year contract by Maersk Oil for use of the rig on the Culzean high-pressure…
Estimates for total investments covering oil and gas, manufacturing, mining and quarrying and electricity supply in Norway expected to fall in Norway in 2017, mainly due a decrease in oil and gas and manufacturing. The projection, from Statistics Norway…
Wintershall Norge has awarded a series of four-year contracts for supply of well completion equipment and services for its operated drilling activities in Norway. The contracts have been awarded to six companies including Halliburton which will provide the largest share of the work…
GC Rieber Shipping has secured a cable lay charter with marine solutions and specialist engineering service provider James Fisher Marine Services for the SURF vessel Polar Onyx for services in the UK North Sea. The charter commences prompt and with options may last in excess of one month…
CGG GeoSoftware launched Jason 9.5, the latest version of its advanced reservoir characterization software that adds many new capabilities including depth inversion, broadband reservoir characterization and anisotropic inversion. These additions…
National Oilwell Varco (NOV) introduced an advancement in radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and asset management software for the oil and gas industry. NOV’s latest generation RFID tag, TracTagTM, has been field-proven…
Mubadala Petroleum has failed to find commercial quantities of oil at its Sri Trang-1 exploration well in the northern Gulf of Thailand. Sri Trang-1 is located in the G1/48 concession, approximately 18km north-northeast of the Manora oil development…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Eni Norge consent to drill an exploration well in Block 7222 in the Barents Sea. Eni Norge is the operator for production license 226 in the Barents Sea. The well is to be drilled in a prospect named Aurelia…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Norske Shell consent to use the Island Constructor mobile drilling facility for start-up and repair of wells on the Draugen field, offshore Norway. Draugen is an oil field in the Norwegian Sea in 250m of water…
Apply Emtunga is building the offshore accommodation modules to the oil rig projects Martin Linge and ETAP at the Arendal Yard in Gothenburg, Sweden. The living quarters for the oil rig Martin Linge are built by Apply Emtunga in Gothenburg…
Aquatic Engineering & Construction has been subcontracted to Bibby Offshore to replace subsea infrastructure in the Central North Sea as part of BP’s US$1billion Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP) life extension project. Image…
DeepOcean 1 UK, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding has been awarded a contract for the provision of post-lay trenching of a 42km power cable from the shore to offshore United Arabic Emirates. Work will be performed by DeepOcean’s recently upgraded T1 mechanical trencher…
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